The ways we miss our lives are life.

The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.

More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book alone, if they could help it, than have a baby alone.

The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.